Films byTexts by Vittorio De Sica
FILM
Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica, 1948, 92’

In post-war Italy, a working-class man’s bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

 

FILM
Vittorio De Sica, 1952, 89’

A heartfelt portrait of an impoverished retired civil servant who lives in a rented room in postwar Rome with only his beloved dog and a teenage housemaid as companions.